“You’ve lost your mind,” I protested. “I’m not sure I’ve ever been more ready.”
He just smiled the kind of smile that suggested he had a secret, then picked up the padded envelope again. One by one, he took things out. A silver chain connected by two small metal clips. A coil of hemp rope. And, of course, he’d already removed the plug and the lube.
I licked my lips, unable to hide my amusement. “Seriously? You had these delivered with my closing documents?” I looked up at him. “I’m not going to ask why—that part I get. But how?”
“It’s amazing what you can arrange on short notice in a town like LA if you’re willing to pay for the service.”
I lifted my brows. “I don’t know if I should be impressed or mortified,” I said, but the words were only for show. My skin was hot, my nipples tight. My sex burned with need of him, and the stretched, full feeling in my ass only made the desire burn that much hotter.
Cole glanced at my breasts, then lazily continued his inspection up and down my body. A slow smile spread across his face. “You’re impressed,” he said. “Shall I slide my finger into your cunt to prove it?”
I made a noise that was probably a yes.
He chuckled. “No, I don’t think so. Not yet.” He took the rope. “Shall I show you what I can do with this? Shall I explain in intimate detail just how this rope is going to make you come?”
I couldn’t speak. Hell, I could barely nod. But the answer was yes. A huge, desperate, demanding yes.
He took my hand, then gently tugged me to my feet. I stood naked in front of him, my body on fire. I felt wild and wanton—as if he could fuck me all night and I still wouldn’t be satisfied.
And then, as he began to take the rope and move around me—as I felt the rough brush of the hemp against my waist as he knotted the cord into a sort of makeshift belt, another set of emotions joined the mix. Curiosity. Eagerness. Passion.
There was no denying that he had a plan, and so help me I wanted to experience every sweet second of it. But I was on edge, too, not knowing what he intended. Not understanding why he had leashed me.
And that edge only added to the excitement.
“It’s like a belt, you see,” Cole said, running his finger around my waist where the double strand of hemp was nice and snug. “Right here is where I’m going to draw it under you,” he said, and then proceeded to thread the two lengths of rope that had been behind me through my legs to my front.
He pulled it tight, making me gasp—and then making me almost come when he positioned each rope on either side of my vulva, so that the cording essentially rubbed against my inner thighs, but was also tight enough to keep some pressure on my sex.
“Tell me how that feels.”
“It’s strange,” I said. “It’s good. There’s pressure, and there’s awareness. It makes me wet. It also—” I cut myself off with a shake of my head.
“No,” he said. “No secrets. I want to know everything.”
“It makes me hot to know you’re binding me,” I said, not quite able to look him in the eye as I spoke. “To know that I’m completely at your mercy. I trust you,” I added, meeting his eyes. “More completely than you probably realize. But that doesn’t change the fact that this is still—”
“Dangerous?”
I nodded as heat flooded my cheeks. “And that just makes it hotter,” I finished, my voice little more than a whisper, as if revealing that most intimate truth would push me over the edge. That it was the final secret that would cost me everything and leave me totally open to him. Totally vulnerable.
But I wanted that—so help me, I wanted to be vulnerable to him. I wanted everything with him. I wanted to go as far as we could go together, and then I wanted to take it even further.